The Perpetual Curate Volume 1

Name: The Perpetual Curate Volume 1
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836102953

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
ISBN: 9781836102953
Published: 20 March 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

clergy life
parish duties
small town society
religious responsibility
social expectations
romantic tension
moral conflict
ambition and duty
Victorian community
reputation and status

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In Carlingford, devoted curate Frank Wentworth shoulders duties a negligent rector leaves undone while a delicate romance with Lucy Wodehouse collides with ambition, gossip, and watchful neighbours. Faith and reputation share one narrow parish path. Spoken as when the perpetual curate still asks what a young priest can keep when society is already measuring him.

Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as if the rent depended on it — because it often did. Widowed young, she supported a large household with novels, biographies, reviews, and stories of the seen and unseen, becoming one of the Victorian age's most tireless professionals. Domestic realism, historical fiction, and ghostly tales all came from the same steady pen.

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Volume 1 · Ebook · English · Sovereign9781836103479
Volume 2 · Ebook · English · Sovereign9781836103486
Volume 2 · Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836102960